Osasuna resumes its activity As of this Monday, just three weeks after the last meeting of the 2019/20 season, with medical tests and already on Thursday with the first contact with the ball. That day will be the first session of the preparatory phase for the 2020/21 academic year, the centenary of the red entity, the club has explained on its website.
This Monday, they will only undergo the medical tests at the University of Navarra Clinic the subsidiary players Aimar Oroz, Gorka Zabarte and Asier Córdoba, while on Tuesday they will face the rest of their teammates.
All footballers, coaching staff and employees who will be in contact with the squad will undergo a PCR test and to another serological agent before the start of the activity, in such a way that a hypothetical positive for the patient could be detected in time and before there is inter-personal contact. COVID-19.
These controls will be carried out 48 hours before the start of the first training session, which will take place once the results are known.
Apart from these tests, the players will undergo a complete analysis, which will be supported with a cardiology study full to those who return after their loan periods, since the rest of the staff members were already examined for these parameters in the final stretch of the completed course and Lucas Torró last week.
Once the medical tests have been passed, Jagoba Arrasate will lead the first training session of the preseason on next Thursday at 10:00 in Tajonar. The team will also exercise on Friday and Saturday to end the first week of work.
It will be in the second week of preparation when the first team will face the Promises in Tajonar (August 22) in which it will be their pre-season debut, while in the following weeks they will face the Mirandés (August 26, Anduva), Alaves (August 29, Tajonar), Real society (September 5, Zubieta) and a fifth team (September 4, Tajonar).
They are summoned to undergo medical tests and start preseason 29 players: Sergio Herrera, Rubén, Juan Pérez, Nacho Vidal, Raúl Navas, Unai García, David García, Aridane, Herrando, Zabarte, Oier, Roberto Torres, Rubén García, Rober Ibáñez, Kike Barja, Darko, Iñigo Pérez, Torró, Moncayola, Luis Perea, Antonio Otegui, Javi Martínez, Aimar, Asier Córdoba, Marc Cardona, Chimy Ávila, Enric Gallego, Adrián and Juan Villar.
Jaume Grau, after finishing his loan at Club Deportivo Lugo, is pending to close a new assignment. For their part, Barbero and Brandon continue in the discipline of the Unión Deportiva Almería and Girona Fútbol Club respectively, teams that have not yet finished the 2019/20 season as they have to play the promotion playoff to LaLiga Santander.